Re: how to debug

[Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes:
>
>>> And does setting `pop3-stream-length' to 1 make the problem go away?
>>
>> Here it is in action. At exactly this point Gnus is in an infite loop
>> betweek pop3-wait-for-messages and pop3-number-of-responses:
>>
>>   re-search-forward("^\\.?\n" nil t)
>>   pop3-number-of-responses(90992)
>>   pop3-wait-for-messages(#<process POP> 13 90992)
>>   pop3-send-streaming-command(#<process POP> "RETR" 13 90992)
>>   pop3-movemail("~/.emacs-mail-crash-box")
>>   mail-source-fetch-pop((pop :server "mail.popserver.com" :user
>> "ltsampros" :password "password") #[(file orig-file) "\303\b\304\305
>> \206
>
> Your message was cut off here.

Yeah. Gnus had warned me of non-printable characters. I chose to replace
non-printable characters with . Here is the continuation of the email:

  re-search-forward("^\\.?\n" nil t)
  pop3-number-of-responses(90992)
  pop3-wait-for-messages(#<process POP> 13 90992)
  pop3-send-streaming-command(#<process POP> "RETR" 13 90992)
  pop3-movemail("~/.emacs-mail-crash-box")
  mail-source-fetch-pop((pop :server "mail.popserver.com" :user
"ltsampros" :password "password") #[(file orig-file) "\303\b\304\305
\206.\b\n\232?\205.\306\n\307\"\310%\207" [file in-group orig-file
nnmail-split-incoming nnml-save-mail nil nnmail-get-split-group (pop
:server "mail.popserver.com" :user "ltsampros" :password "password")
nnml-active-number] 7])
  mail-source-fetch((pop :server "mail.popserver.com" :user "ltsampros"
:password "password") #[(file orig-file) "\303\b\304\305
\206.\b\n\232?\205.\306\n\307\"\310%\207" [file in-group orig-file
nnmail-split-incoming nnml-save-mail nil nnmail-get-split-group (pop
:server "mail.popserver.com" :user "ltsampros" :password "password")
nnml-active-number] 7])
  nnmail-get-new-mail-1(nnml nnml-save-incremental-nov "~/Mail.Gnus" nil nil nil)
  nnmail-get-new-mail(nnml nnml-save-incremental-nov "~/Mail.Gnus" nil)
  nnml-request-scan(nil "")
  gnus-request-scan(nil (nnml ""))
  gnus-read-active-file-1((nnml "") nil)
  gnus-read-active-for-groups((nnml "") ((very many big list of groups and ranges ))
  gnus-get-unread-articles(nil)
  gnus-group-get-new-news(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news nil nil)

The 5 last lines of the rather long "trace of POP session to
mail.popserver.com" are the following:

As for binary drivers...  They work ok *if* and *while* the company wants
to support the hardware/OS.  Onc-ERR Format restriction violation. Email Session ID: {4E272662-76-4818C96-FFFF}

Process POP connection broken by remote peer

I can post the whole buffer if you want in pastebin or a similar
service.

Many Thanks
Leonidas Tsampros